Dr. Tereza Stehlikova

Scent of Zeros and Ones, 2024: https://vimeo.com/916003913

As we spend more time in digital spaces, we risk losing touch with the physical world—and with ourselves. Scent of Zeros and Ones explores what happens when we trade deep, embodied experiences for the freedom of virtual existence. The film draws us into a strange, hybrid space where reflections of the real world merge with the digital. A lone, disembodied face floats in a dimly lit, pixelated landscape, shaped by poor internet connection and low lighting. The result is an eerie, semi-abstract atmosphere that blurs the boundaries between self and screen, presence and absence, digital and analogue. AI-generated text—later edited and transformed—further amplifies the film’s exploration of disembodied loneliness. In this world, there is no reference to the felt dimension, no grounding in sensory reality. Instead, we drift—unanchored, with the real world reduced to a distant echo.